Citizen, voter, organizer & something of a politics/history geek. Come at me w/data+sources not canned insults, please or at least do it creatively if you must.
@NotEnoughSlices@soulkhan Oh lord! 🤦🏼♀️ This is not even remotely surprising after a couple decades+ of being represented by Schumer in the Senate but it’s so still painful to read. Holy fuck!!!
@LidSid19152@PatriciaSp26916@AprilSaldivar17@elonmusk Bc their claims of fraud are lies too. Just like they lie when talking about budget cuts being about the deficit. They’re giving a $4.5 trillion tax gift to those making over $350,000/year & raising taxes on people making less AND raising the debt limit by $4 trillion. They lie!
@ikarma___@An_Enemy_Within@hammer60xx@BernieSanders They’re lying. They say no cuts to those programs but the budget res. they’re pushing instructs the committee that controls those services to cut $880 billion in spending. There is no other way for that committee to cut w/$880b from the budget w/o slashing Medicare, Medicaid+SSI.
@sandbarbreak@JChimirie66677@elonmusk@AdamLowisz Why do folks arguing your POV always seem to be oblivious to the extensive oversight of US aid to Ukr? The Biden admin. appointed a special counsel to oversee it & made a metric shit ton of records available for public review. Btw, you can find it here. https://t.co/OOYKhP8K8k
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban “gov. efficiency,” plan by going after life saving programs that also help US farmers/the US economy instead of immediately addressing the most bloated & excessively secretive part of the US budget, betrays their intent & in the end, they’ll kill Americans w/their recklessness!
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban whose product or service is pure pork & genuinely useless and/or whose performance is poor enough to warrant cutting the contract or opening it up to other bidders if they do or provide something crucial. Bottom line, the fact that Musk/Trump are beginning their alleged…4/5
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban the current total US debt was added during Trump 1.0, mostly in the form of a give away to the richest .01% of people & corps on Earth. Please don’t fall for their bait & switch. Check the data & you’ll see the R hypocrisy on this front, if you choose to assess it honestly. 3/3
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban spent like drunks w/an unlimited line of credit behind closed doors, while simultaneously working their privatization scam on their own voters via right wing media. When a Democrat is POTUS, Rs suddenly remember to pretend they give a shit about the deficit. Roughly 1/4 of…2/?
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban guy posing or his decree re: the U.S. military going into the ethnic cleansing biz in Gaza to make way for him to line his pockets gentrifying it. That’s the tip of the iceberg re: the ways he’s making the world far less safe for regular Americans just w/this USAID bullshit. 3/3
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban the 3rd world, that encourages migration & increases the need for rich countries to take in refugees. Personally, I’m cool w/refugees but I suspect you aren’t. Food aid & other humanitarian programs win the ❤️s+🧠s of foreigners far more effectively than any of Trump’s tough 2/?
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban there’s an issue w/how it’s run, the admin. can work w/Congress to fix it w/o destroying the good work they do. Btw, that work contributes to protecting the health & safety of US citizens domestically in many ways. That’s why it’s always had broad bipartisan support before. 2/2
@Toddler35020@GailDow12@jledvm@mcuban Are you really naive enough to buy into this narrative from 2 men, both w/long histories of documented fraud & double-dealing, despite the total absence of any proof whatsoever? Congress has the power of the purse & is responsible for oversight of other gov. branches. If…1/2